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If you took your child to see Santa, but the Santa that day was deaf would you let your child see him or would you leave & come back another day?

I'll explain better here since I have limited space to write the whole question with explanation: So say you take your child (if you don't have a child just pretend) to the mall to see the Santa there. You get to the mall and find out on that day the designated Santa is deaf and uses sign language. All children are still welcomed and there are interpreters there to help with hearing children to communicate. Would you be okay with that and still let your child participate or would you tell your child they can't see Santa and leave to just come back on a different day when the designated Santa isn't deaf?
I feel like for most people this is a dumb question, but there's this event that I volunteer for that's at a huge mall. Two days out of the season there is a deaf Santa and it's heavily advertised so parents know. All the other days it's a "normal" Santa. You would think people wouldn't have an issue with it, but there are so many complaints from parents and a lot of them are opposed to their child being exposed to deaf people/ a deaf Santa... Personally I don't understand why anyone would have a problem with it, but I'm hard of hearing so maybe I'm biased? So I was just wondering how people on here feel about it and if they would feel opposed by it what their reasoning for it is just so I can understand better.
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I'd have no problem with it but it's supposed to be the real Santa at the mall so maybe parents don't want to explain to their kids why Santa is deaf on that day when kids know he isn't
JaggedLittlePill · 46-50, F
@Nunlover The real Santa?

Maybe the real Santa is black. Would that bother you too? Lol
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@Nunlover I mean I get it to a point, but I feel like there's ways to explain it if they had to. In my experience the kids never have a problem with it and it's the parents who make a big deal. Like one mom dragged her kid away saying Santa was sick and the kid was screaming crying that they wanted to see Santa anyways.
NaturallyPeculiar · 26-30, F
@JaggedLittlePill That's true. There isn't a real Santa so technically Santa can be really anyone with a beard. My parents took me to see a blank Santa when I was little and I didn't even question it or care.
@JaggedLittlePill can you not read
@NaturallyPeculiar that's sad but who are we to parent other people's kids